Twilight

So anyone who knows me on any kind of personal level knows that one of my major pet peeves is Twilight, well, the Twilight series. They have been a pet peeve of mine ever since i read them in July last year.

Why you may ask do i hate Twilight so much? Is it simply because everyone else likes it? (as one friend suggested i might?) Is it because i am a deeply religious person who believes that Twilight is a crime against God (HA!)? Could it be because i am secretly jealous of her?

In reality the reason i give for disliking Twilight is because i believe that the writing is complete and utter crap.

But in a way it is those other reasons too. I do dislike it because it is popular, because i believe that twilight is tooo popular. There are many other authors out there who have just as much talent as her, or more. Yet she somehow became this amazingly popular author with work that strikes me as mediocre at best. So i dislike them because this book becomes the standard for good writing and anything harder than it or more complicated than it is deemed not good enough. So i dislike it because it becomes the standard simply because so many people like it that if you don't you must hate it because it is popular or because something is wrong with you rather than simply being well read and realizing it isn't that great.

As for the crime against God comment there, i threw that in because it was simply a reason and i needed a few more. But thinking about it now i have a few things to say (i love tangents). First and foremost, even though i dislike Twilight i would hardly call it a crime against God, against the gods of literature sure (if they exist) but the Almighty descibed in the bible? i doubt it.

Lets for fun examine the reasons why it could be:
- Supernatural creatures, nope they are in the bible
- Murder, nope they are in the bible
- Lust, DEFFINATLY in the bible
- Defying ones parents, in the bible
- Motercycles, ok not in the bible but i don't recall them being forbidden either
- Swear word, they might be bad but i don't think the bible forbids them either
- Violence, anyone note what happens in Egypt all the time? or to Jesus?
- Devorce, there we go, the one thing forbidden that i cannot get around.

So twilight is a crime against the Christan God and probably a couple others because the main character's parents are devorced.

And as for the final reason, am i secretly jealous of her? Yes. How could i not be jealous of her? I want to one day be a published author and i have to say i doubt i will ever be anywhere near as successful as she has been with these 4 books. So yes, i do dislike her also because i am jealous of her.

My main problem with her though is the same problem i have with Shakespeare. Beware fans, i am gonna tear them both apart even if it alienates everyone i know.

Shakespeare wasn't good in his time. Did you get that? I said Shakespeare was not good in his time. As in his works made money but not much, as in people went to see it but it wasn't the favourite. In fact the main reason he was successful was because the queen happened to be a fan.

Did you get that? The reason that teenagers are forced to read these ancient works in english is simply because it appealed to one royal back in the century.

That is not to say his work does not contain its own moments of beauty. Or that i am not sometimes jealous of the way the english he uses sounds, where rather than attempt to condense the message down to the tiniest bit of wording possible so it can all be sent in a text he expounds out his point until you understand it in its entire breadth.

Yet we expect teenagers to read this, the same ones who think Twilight is amazing. They both have their own moments of glory, those sentences that will still be quoted by lovesick teens a century from now or more. but to expect them to read the entire thing then is simply an insane notion. They both work within their groups but neither is truly fantastic for their time and i think we need to realize this. Next post i will list some books to read in order to truly see the great unknown writers of our time.